No OS Development options in Cosmos

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Area of Cosmos - What area of Cosmos are we dealing with?

OS Development

Expected Behaviour - What do you think that should happen?

An Operating System development option should appear in project templates (Visual Studio 2019).

Actual Behaviour - What unexpectedly happens?

I get three options for kernels but nothing for the actual OS.

Reproduction - How did you get this error to appear?

Opening Visual Studio and looking for Cosmos templates made this error appear.

Version - Were you using the User Kit or Dev Kit? And what User Kit version or Dev Kit commit (Cosmos, IL2CPU, X#)?

User Kit, release 20200708.

Similar to #954 but with the user kit and newer versions of Cosmos and VS.

[quajak]

The kernel options are what you use to develop the operating system.

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@quajak But that's just the kernel. I'm using Cosmos as an OS Development kit, I'm not trying to commit to the actual Cosmos project. I just looked up some instructions on how to create a simple operating system with Cosmos and what I was looking for seemingly checks out:

https://www.instructables.com/Make-A-Simple-Operating-System/
https://www.instructables.com/Make-an-Operating-System-in-C/

Maybe a previous version of the Cosmos user kit has what I'm looking for?

[MishaTy]

@sketchedgrey No, the kernel templates are what you use to make your own operating system using cosmos.

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@MishaTy OK! I selected Kernel, created a project, and built it and I saw I got an ISO. Later I'll commit for some disambiguation because a kernel is not an OS in of itself. I got this code:

      using System;
      using System.Collections.Generic;
      using System.Text;
      using Sys = Cosmos.System;

      namespace MyHobbyOS
      {
          public class Kernel : Sys.Kernel
          {
              protected override void BeforeRun()
              {
             Console.WriteLine("Cosmos booted successfully. Type a line of text to get it echoed back.");
              }

              protected override void Run()
              {
                  Console.Write("Input: ");
                  var input = Console.ReadLine();
                  Console.Write("Text typed: ");
                  Console.WriteLine(input);
                  // Not part of the original code, but I'm assuming right here is where I'll add input/output switch logic?
              }
          }
      }

I'll close the issue as soon as everything is cleared up.
EDITS: Code formatting :(

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OK! Done!